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If you’ve visited Hemmings.com over the last few days, you may have noticed that we’ve spiffed it up a little bit with a new look. This minor redesign, however, is just phase one in a broader plan to improve Hemmings.com, and for phase two we could use your help.

We are currently conducting an online study to help make the Hemmings website easier to use. As somebody who visits Hemmings.com – either through the Hemmings Daily or directly to the Hemmings Blog – we would like you to participate in this study. The entire study will take about 10-15 minutes to complete, and your results are confidential. To get started, click here.

While prowling the Hemmings classifieds today (and you do make the Hemmings online classifieds a daily stop, right?), you may have noticed some changes. We’ve been working on a new classified ad search and display interface that we believe will simplify and streamline your search for the collector cars you’ve always dreamed of. After months of development and testing, we believe we’ve worked out all the kinks, but we invite you to cruise the classifieds, check out all the new features, and if you do see any bugs, please report them here or email them directly to us.

Okay, so them young whippersnappers have been making good use of this Facebook Web 2.0 Intarnet thing, so we thought we’d give it a try over there, and we’re even offering a nifty free Hemmings application for the Facebook-addicted. With this app, you can either see the 30 most recent listings from Hemmings.com or you can search for that exact collector car you’ve been looking for. In addition, we have quick links up to our free weekly newsletter and our monthly podcast (soon to come off hiatus). So poke around, tell us what other apps you’d like to see, and share your compromising pics of Hemmings editors.

Your intrepid Hemmings e-Weekly Muscle Cars correspondent has had his eye on this 1969 COPO Camaro since it appeared in The Worldwide Group’s catalog previewing the auction house’s August 30 Auburn Auction. The car boasts just 325 original miles and reportedly had one owner until December 2007.

We wouldn’t even venture to guess the value of this car — particularly in this market — but if you’re feeling flush, and are in the market for the ultimate first-generation F-body, the owner’s contact info is listed in the ad.

(This post originally appeared in the October 23, 2008, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)

If you didn’t happen to see the mention in today’s Hemmings e-Weekly Newsletter (you do have the free newsletter subscription, don’t you?), we’re now starting to offer the option of uploading video to your classifieds in an effort to help sell your car or, alternately, to help you get a better idea of the condition of the car you’re thinking of buying. Oh, and no, McGean’s not selling his Camaro; that’s just a sample vid.

So give it a whirl, and keep tuned for more video news down the road a bit.

We’ve always had an ear out for what our readers have had to say. In addition to the letters sections and tech Q&A sections of each of our four magazines, we’ve also tried to make it as simple as possible to drop us some feedback via the Hemmings forum, to tell your stories in the My Hemmings pages and now to share your photos in the Hemmings Nation pool at Flickr. Rest assured, we keep an eye on all of those outlets continuously.

But maybe you have a story idea you’d like to see us cover. Or a feature you want to see on the website. Maybe you have a specific question for one of the editors. Maybe you have a story to tell, but think our wordsmiths can put it more eloquently. Maybe you saw something in the gift shop or the Sibley Shop museum when visiting Hemmings HQ. Want to invite Hemmings to participate in your vintage car rally? Or maybe you just want to rant about some aspect of the old car hobby. Heck, even if you’re not subscribing to one of our magazines or if you have a beef with us, here’s your chance to tell us why.

So do it here. Right now. Leave a comment in this post with your suggestion, your question, your story. Have something to confide, but don’t want it to show up in print? Email us and let us know. With all this Internet at our hands, it’s a two-way street, and it’s about time you told us what you want out of your Hemmings experience.

Need that somethin’ extra to add to your website? Maybe classifieds, but you don’t know how to get started down that road? Well, now you can run the latest Hemmings online classifieds on your site, free of charge. First, hit up our Cars for Sale page, then check out the blue box immediately to the right of the classified listings. Copy the code and paste it to your site. Want to only show Mustang classifieds or Mopar classifieds? Browse by make and model over on the left, and the code in the blue box will automatically change to reflect the makes and models that you’re currently viewing. Several sites, such as 1800philes.com, have already included Hemmings classifieds on their frontpages. As a little incentive to do so, we’ll link to ya if you do so and let us know.

Also, we’ve got a little widget on the bottom of hemmings.com showing the latest blog posts. Want to place that widget on your blog, MySpace page or Facebook page? Easy enough, we’ve got the code available right under the widget. Again, let us know if you do and we’ll link ya.

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(This post originally appeared in the November 23, 2006, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)

We’ve made a subtle change in the archive system on our home page recently. From now on, stories from the past six months for each of our publications are viewable by subscribers only, but archives from six months back to four years for all of our publications are viewable by everybody.